Mount St. Helens, still steaming, holds the world's newest glacier - Glens Falls Post-Star
The Latest Report: PCBs, volatile organic compounds too high A coalition of agencies in charge of protecting the Hudson River said Thursday that the communities of Hudson Falls, Fort Edward and Stillwater have been hurt by groundwater... They say something about who we are and why we do what we do. Under this aesthetically inclined Venus-ruled Taurus moon, it will be bothersome if our symbols don’t accurately reflect our identity — and mighty satisfying when they do. Ray Yurkewycz... Steam rose from the twin magma domes formed after Mount St. Helens’ cataclysmic eruption in 1980 and the quieter outburst that started in 2004. But Yurkewycz, operations director for the nonprofit Mount St. Helens Institute, was focused less on... Few people realize, he said, that the hollowed-out crater where lava was flowing just a few years ago now holds the world’s youngest glacier. And if that’s not surprising enough, the prosaically named Crater Glacier is also growing at a time when most glaciers around the globe are in rapid retreat. “It’s cascading down into this valley now,” Yurkewycz said, pointing out a tongue of ice flowing over a rise and into a rubbly ravine. Source: poststar.com
